The skeleton, complete except for its feet, is that of a high status man with an arrow in the back and a cleaved skull showing he clearly died in battle. Other evidence pointing to it being the king rests with the skeleton having a spinal curvature, largely declared in olden times as hunchbacks that fits with Shakespeare's description of a back deformity. But final proof rests with DNA from the bones, being analysed at the University of Leicester, which also led the dig, being matched to DNA being extracted from a mouth swab from 55-year-old Michael Ibsen.